AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Tax Law

  • Assistance in understanding the taxation of individuals and legal entities engaged in industrial, commercial, financial or service rendering activities;
  • Guidance and assistance for the Comptroller  and Accounting sectors;
  • Tax organization for shareholders’ equity, shareholders and directors;
  • Preparation of tax planning;
  • Orientation in projects of corporate and tax planning;
  • Elaboration of defenses and appeals in administrative proceedings;
  • Attendance of inspection processes;
  • Attendance of compensation and/or restitution of taxes;
  • Elaboration of tax review procedures, calculation of credits and recovery of assets;
  • Attendance of proceedings in the Superior Courts, as well as presentation of memorials and oral defenses;
  • Elaboration of legal opinion on tax matters (judicial or extrajudicial).

Business Law

  • Organization and reorganization of family trusts and development of succession planning;
  • Recommendation for family office;
  • Establishment and reorganization of asset managers, joint ventures and startups;
  • Incorporation and reorganization of companies through mergers, acquisitions and incorporations;
  • Establishment and defense of companies, partners, shareholders and directors in business arbitration proceedings;
  • Review of legal contracts and other corporate acts;
  • Elaboration of compliance programs, as well as training for employees;
  • Attendance of partners, shareholders or directors at company meetings;
  • Repatriation of assets;
  • Elaboration of legal opinion on business law (judicial or extrajudicial).

 

 

 

Corporate Integrity

  • Attendance of risk assessment;
  • Elaboration and review of compliance programs;
  • Lectures, courses and training for employees regarding corporate integrity;
  • Consulting on foreign legislation, notably FCPA and UKPA;
  • Consulting on leniency agreements;
  • Acting in administrative and judicial proceedings involving anti-corruption situations;
  • Elaboration of legal opinion on issues directly or indirectly related to corporate integrity.

Corporate Criminal Law

  • Attendance of police and civil investigations involving tax crimes, bankruptcy, bidding, money laundering, consumer relations and crimes against the economic order;
  • Elaboration of defenses and appeals in legal proceedings involving situations of tax crime, bankruptcy, bidding, money laundering, consumer relations and crimes against the economic order;
  • Attendance of processes of Tax Representation for Criminal Purposes;
  • Collection of private criminal actions;
  • Elaboration of criminal compliance program;
  • Legal Recommendation and consultancy to analyze business legislation that may generate criminal impact;
  • Due diligence to detect any business practices prohibited by legislation, especially with regard to anti-corruption legislation in Brazil, England and the United States;
  • Elaboration and application of internal courses and training of employees regarding the norms of Corporate Criminal Law, especially regarding the criminal compliance program;
  • Recommendation and consulting for repatriation of assets;
  • Attendance of proceedings in the Superior Courts, as well as interposition of recourses, presentation of memorials and oral submissions;
  • Elaboration of Legal Opinion on Corporate Criminal Law (judicial or extrajudicial).

Foreign Investment

  • Legal Recommendation and consulting to foreign investors in Brazil;
  • Guidance on the entry of foreign funds into Brazil, in accordance with Brazilian standards, especially the acts issued by the Central Bank of Brazil;
  • Recommendation and consultancy for foreign capital formation in Brazil, through corporate organization, preparation of tax planning and preparation of compliance programs;
  • Registration of Foreign Investment with the Central Bank of Brazil;
  • Preparation of Legal Opinion in Portuguese, English or German on the procedure and application of legal norms in compliance with foreign investments in Brazil.

Labor and Employment

  • Legal Recommendation and consultancy for employers;
  • Elaboration of administrative and judicial defenses;
  • Monitoring and preparation of administrative defenses in preparatory and investigative proceedings before the Federal Labor Prosecutor;
  • Elaboration of internal regiments for employers;
  • Attendance of proceedings in the Superior Labor Court and in the Supreme Court, as well as  appeals, presentation of memorials and oral defenses;
  • Protection of rights and prerogatives of employees;
  • Elaboration of Legal Opinion on Labor Law (judicial or extrajudicial.

Contracts

  • Preparation and analysis of civil and corporate contracts;
  • Settlement of judicial review and contractual annulment proceedings;
  • Attendance of processes involving Contractual Law in the Superior Courts, as well as presentation of memorials and oral defenses;
  • Elaboration of Legal Opinion on Contract Law (judicial or extrajudicial).

Civil Responsability

  • Action lawsuit at the liability of third parties for all types of contractual or extracontractual damages, with the purpose of providing compensation for values, which are understood as moral, material and aesthetic damages, as well as damages and loss of profits;
  • Elaboration of defenses in civil liability cases, with a focus on reducing or eliminating the penalty of the conviction;
  • Attendance of processes involving discussions on Civil Liability in Superior Courts, as well  presentation of memorials and oral defenses;
  • Elaboration of Legal Opinion on Civil Responsibility Law (judicial or extrajudicial) in the medical field, civil construction and work of independent contractors.

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